"This website is here to guide you through the process of developing very basic operating systems on the Raspberry Pi! This website is aimed at people aged 16 and upwards, although younger readers may still find some of it accessible, particularly with assistance. More lessons may be added to this course in time." From the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, one of the institutions behind the Raspberry Pi. Amazing resource.

I suspect it's harder and less rewarding than learning to program applications on computers as we did. Never the less I'm sure the raspberry pi is a fine device to learn the niche of embeded programming. In the context of our discussion though, can a kid program a raspberry pi with a stock ipad (*)?

On a related note, there still aren't any US distributors carrying the Raspberry Pi. Farnell's website will ship internationally with a ~50 day lead time. Alliedelec shows zero stock, which as far as I can tell has been the case since the Raspberry Pi debut. Supply hasn't kept up with demand.